Raduga Kh-59 (AS-13 Kingbolt) and Kh-59M (AS-18 Kazoo)

The Kh-59 missile (Article D9) was for the first time publicly displayed
in November 1991, in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). This missile is guided
by television and propelled by a powder-fuel engine, with a powder- fuel
accelerator in the tail. Its folding stabilizers are located at the front,
while its cantilever wings with rudders are located in the rear.

The Kh-59M missile differs from the original model by having a twice
as large warhead and by another propulsion system. Under the missile body
has been suspended a small turbojet engine, the RDK-300 designed by the
"Soyuz" [Union] OKB. The missile is brought up to speed by a powder-fuel
accelerator located in the tail section and then continues flying propelled
by that turbojet engine. Equipped with such a propulsion system, the missile
has a three times longer range than the Kh-59.

Because television guidance has the drawback that the target must
be "seen" by the missile, which limits the missile's range of action,
the Kh-59M has a dual guidance system. After having been fired, the missile
is guided by an inertial navigation system into the vicinity of the target
and then the television camera is turned on for transmission of images
to the receiver on board the missile's carrier aircraft. The transmitter
of flight-correcting radio commands (APK-8 for MiG-27K aircraft or APK-9
for Su-24M/30M and newer aircraft) is mounted in a container which hangs
under the aircraft. The armament consisting of a Kh-59M missile with such
guidance is called Owad [Insect]-M.